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- Fortunately, "A Handmaid's Tale", the hideous cinematic attack on
- Christians released in the spring of 1990, is dead. The movie portrayed a
- futuristic America in which Christian fundamentalists have overthrown the
- U.S. Government.
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- They have established a repressive, military regime in which
- nonbelievers, ethnic minorities, and infertile women have been herded
- off to work camps. The ruling elite, Christian leaders in the pre-overthrow
- socieity, have forced all fertile women to be their child-bearing handmaids,
- to swear allegiance to the Bible, and to sing the doxology at public hangings
- of abortionists. At the Hollywood premiere the director, Volker Schlondorff,
- made it clear that his film was an attack on fundamentalist Christians.
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- The film died at the box office. With it showing in only a few theaters
- nationwide, it had grossed only about three million dollars, meaning that the
- movie will probably cost its producers seven to ten million dollars. Forgive
- me, but it couldn't happen to more deserving people.
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